Deval Patrick

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[h=1]Obama wants ex-Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick to run in 2020 - in pointed snub to Joe Biden[/h]

• President Obama and some of his top aides are quietly encouraging former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to run for president
• Patrick told Politico it's 'way, way too soon' to be talking about the next presidential race, though dished out some critisicm to President Trump
• Backing Patrick early on could put Obama and his allies in an awkward position if his former Vice President Joe Biden, a close friend, also jumps in

 

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President Obama and his allies are already whispering in the ear of the Democrat they'd like to see run for president next, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett and even the former president himself, according to Politico, all see Patrick, who left politics in 2015, as an heir apparent.
He, however, doesn't seem that interested yet, while Obama's ex-vice president Joe Biden, seems more primed to run.
'I'm trying to think about how to be helpful, because I care about the country, and I'm a patriot first,' he told Politico for the pub's Off Message podcast. 'It's way, way too soon to be making plans for 2020.'

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (left) is a favorite 2020 presidential contender of President Obama (right) and some of his top political allies

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Former Vice President Joe Biden is doing a lot of things that look like he may try again for the White House in 2020. He decided not to run in 2016 because he had just lost his son Beau

'So I'll just leave it at that,' the former governor said.
Patrick, a member of the Obama inner circle, hasn't made much of a peep about politics since he left office, heading over to Bain Capital for work.
He's now running a 'social good' venture at the firm most often associated with the Republicans' 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, having raised $390 million for small and medium sized businesses focused on sustainability and health and wellness.
That's not to say Patrick isn't opinionated about what's going on with his friend Obama's successor.
'The president, I believe is at risk of diminishing the voice of the presidency because he pops off so often, and so, kind of carelessly,' Patrick said of Trump, who likes to frequently tweet.
'I think there is a risk both domestically, and internationally for that matter, that we'll begin to tune him out,' Patrick added.
Patrick also suggested that Trump's successful slogan, 'Make America Great Again,' was disingenuous to the people it was sold to.

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President Obama (left) with then Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick exiting Air Force One in 2014. Obama has reportedly tried to court Patrick to run for the presidency in 2020

'Nostalgia, that's what Trump was selling right?' he asked.
'His tag line was on the "again." You know, saying to communities, whose factories have left, that the solution is to bring that factory back. It may not actually be the most constructive, or even honest, pitch to make,' Patrick said.
Democrats, he suggested, needed to be focused on the economy of tomorrow.
But a lot of Democrats are focusing on the potential candidates they have in the roster too.
'If you were to poll 100 notable Obama alumni, the only two people who would win that 2020 straw poll right now are Biden and Patrick,' one former senior White House aide told Politico.
This could put Obama in the same uncomfortable place where he was the last cycle, with Biden as his vice president and Hillary Clinton as his former secretary of state.

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President Obama (left) could again be in an awkward position if he's courting Deval Patrick as his former veep, Joe Biden (right), has also signaled he may jump in the race

While Obama didn't publicly endorse a candidate until June 2016, when just the Democratic primary in the District of Columbia was left, his political organization veered hard Hillary early, with top-tier members like John Podesta and Jennifer Palmieri signing on.
Throughout the spring and summer of 2015, when candidates generally announced, Biden stayed on the sidelines, having lost his eldest son Beau that may.
He eventually decided he wouldn't jump in.
As the book Shattered, by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, explained, Biden had asked some money bundlers and political allies to sit out while he made a decision, he hadn't built up the kind of campaign operation that could go after Clinton in the upcoming Democratic primary.
'He would have to pry Democratic donors, staff, and superdelegates away from a Clinton campaign that could credibly argue at the time that it would be political suicide to leave her for Biden,' Allen and Parnes wrote.
'As much as the Clinton team worried about Biden, Biden rightly worried that he could go down in flames,' they added.
But now, with Clinton's political career likely gone thanks to her flame-out against now-President Donald Trump, Biden looks to be mulling a bid for the White House again.
Since Trump has taken office, Biden started the Biden Foundation, the Biden Cancer Initiative, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and the University of Delaware's Biden Institute for domestic initiatives, according to the Washington Post.
Like every good wannabe presidential candidate, he's coming out with a book – Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose – which lands in November.
And surrounding that launch, he's going on a large-venue tour, appearing in coliseums, symphony halls and theaters.

 

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He's created a political action committee as well, American Possibilities, which will raise money for Democratic candidates and, possibly, himself.
Bruce Reed, his former chief of staff, told the Post, that Biden's still got it.
'Joe Biden has always been a man with boundless energy, and he'll never quit,' Reed told the paper's Roxanne Roberts.
Though he cautioned that a busy Biden may not necessarily mean a presidential run.
'He would be doing all he's doing no matter what his plans are,' Reed said. 'He's not the retiring kind.'
And when Biden spoke of it himself, during an interview on NPR, he tried closing the door, while at the same time keeping it ajar.
'I have no intention of running for president, but I'm a great respecter of fate,' the former vice president said. 'I don't have any plans to do it, but I'm not promising I wouldn't do it.'

 

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Read more:

• Joe Biden still wants to be president. Can his family endure one last campaign? - The Washington Post
• Obama’s Inner Circle Is Urging Deval Patrick to Run - POLITICO Magazine

 

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If Obama is for this guy... That's all the reason America should just say NO.

 

[Willie99]

Barry probably knows the only way Democrats can win nationwide is to have an African American on top of the ticket, the party has moved too far into the leftest stratosphere

They need a yuuuuuge African American turnout in all the battleground states, because it's obvious their "turnout machine" just ain't what the fucking idiots told us it was. Only race makes that machine run

 

[SheriffJoe]

Barry probably knows the only way Democrats can win nationwide is to have an African American on top of the ticket, the party has moved too far into the leftest stratosphere

They need a yuuuuuge African American turnout in all the battleground states, because it's obvious their "turnout machine" just ain't what the fucking idiots told us it was. Only race makes that machine run

Beyond sad and pathetic.

Don't forget, the Dems also have...

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Beyond sad and pathetic.

Don't forget, the Dems also have...

And the common denominator is?



Haha. It's a trick question.